Welcome to week 1 of our Fall 2024 16 Week Teaching Challenge!
If you're wondering what's going on, take a minute and read The Big Launch post here. If, on the other hand, you're ready to begin, here's this week's challenge.
Week 1: Aug 12 - Learning About Learning Targets
1. Begin by reading (or rereading) the list of EL Education's 8 High-Leverage Instructional Practices That Empower Students to Own Their Learning, and read the row for Learning Targets most closely.
2. Then, read the document Using Learning Targets. I encourage you to approach this with fresh eyes; we've heard the term "learning targets" so much, it's easy to have a bit of an "expert blind spot" about them. Print this out, mark it up, and reflect on what this adds to or changes your thinking about learning targets. What new did you glean from it?
3. Last, watch this 5 minute video of a teacher using learning targets at the beginning of a lesson. What do you notice about the teaching? What do you notice about the students?
Completed those 3 tasks? Congratulations! You just completed your Week 1 Learning Challenge. If you want, you can log your success here, and be sure to check back next week - August 19 - for Week 2!
Here's to simply teaching well,
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